SUN Mobility partner for last mile delivery

New Delhi: Electric mobility solutions provider Sun Mobility on Friday said it has tied up with last mile delivery firm Zyngo.

As part of the association, Zyngo's fleet of e-loaders/carriers will utilise SUN Mobility's services through the network of battery swap points available at Indian Oil Corporation Ltd (IOCL) stations, to bolster its last-mile delivery services.

In a live event, the two companies formally announced their partnership and operations in the city of Gurugram. The partnership has already witnessed 120 vehicles deployed across Gurugram, Delhi, Noida and Ghaziabad, and will aim to expand to 500 vehicles by the end of 2021.

"The e-commerce boom in the last 9 to 12 months has caused a surge in the last mile delivery segment. Players such as Amazon, Flipkart and BigBasket have expressed strong commitment to shift their delivery fleet to electric in the near future," SUN Mobility Chairman & co-founder Chetan Maini said in a statement.

The company's partnership with Zyngo will allow it to accelerate clean last mile delivery operations, using vehicles powered by open architecture energy platforms, he added. "Our partnership with SUN Mobility will help provide a complete swapping ecosystem that will allow a pollution-free, seamless delivery service to our end customers," Zyngo Founder and CEO Prateek Rao said.

Zyngo is the delivery partner of several e-commerce, FMCG, retail and pharma organisations, he added. "Our aim is to expand to become one of the leading EV logistics service-providers in the last mile sector," Rao noted.